Re: Need Your Opinions re Simplified English (Can I quote you?)

[John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Sorry, Gary...but I agree with Eric. I write for my audience. I don't
write for Mr. Webster and language will survive regardless of how I
write in my tiny part of the documentation universe. I'm not paid to
be "protector of the word". If I write contrary to what my uers
understand or contrary to how they are comfortable, who am I
benefiting besides those few anal writers who care if I use who or
whom? They are not the ones paying me for my service.  


--- Gary Clark <Gary -at- wtw -dot- org> wrote:
> 
> Eric L. Dunn wrote:
> >
> > >>Glad you got the message Keith. Now if all those others would
> get the
> > >>message things would be better.
> > >>
> > >>Gary Clark
> > >>Las Vegas, Nevada
> >
> > I think we all know Keith was being sarcastic. I hope Gary 
> > was too.
> >
> > If my users speak Pidgin English I'll write in Pidgin. Protecting
> > the langauge be damned.
> >
> > Eric L. Dunn
> 
> 
> Then you're one of those people who should be dragged from their
> beds in
> the middle of the night, whipped until the flesh hangs peeling from
> their
> bodies and then burned alive at the stake (figuratively, at least).
> 
> Gary Clark
> Las Vegas, Nevada


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